Inquiry Learning - Kath Murdoch @ Ilam School - 13/10/09
Inquiry Learning Model: Kath Murdoch
Generative questions: What is the inquiry really about?
Understandings, skills and values: What do we want the students to understand more deeply? Students self assess skills and understanding at the beginning and end of the unit.
Tuning in (to the students, not just the topic!): Engagement and gathering prior knowledge, pre assessment questions for inquiry, goal setting.
Finding out: Experiences and texts that add to knowledge base - emphasis on gathering data first hand and in a range of ways.
Sorting out: Organising, anaylsing, and communicating the information gathered using a range of learnign areas.
Going further: Raising or revisiting questions, extending experiences, challenging assumptions - usually individually negotiated.
Drawing conclusions: Stating revisited understandings - What do we think and know now? How do we feel? High level thinking about the topic.Now what? - taking action.
Inquiry Learning - Kath Murdoch @ Ilam School - 13/10/09
Inquiry Learning Model: Kath Murdoch